“[W]e can achieve marriage for same-sex couples nationwide in 15 to 25 years,” the leaders of the LGBT movement declared on June 21, 2005 — a decade ago to the day. The decision followed big losses in November 2004.

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Lawmakers ran out the clock with procedural tactics. The bill would have prevented the state from spending money issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, an attempt to defy a potential Supreme Court ruling for marriage equality.

The claim could be used by Chief Justice John Roberts to strike down bans on same-sex couples’ marriages. The argument isn’t new, though, having appeared throughout the past decades of marriage fights — since the 1970s.

Rep. Cecil Bell Jr.’s bill moving through the Texas legislature would block the state from spending any money recognizing same-sex marriages, an effort to undermine a gay-rights ruling by the Supreme Court. LGBT advocates say Bell’s bill could create a quagmire of future lawsuits.

The hottest ticket in town is not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. By noon Saturday, nearly four dozen people were waiting in line outside the Supreme Court for Tuesday’s arguments over states’ same-sex marriage bans.

I used to think the marriage equality movement was a distraction from more important queer issues. But that was before I went to an LGBT Wedding Expo in one of the only states where same-sex marriage is still banned.